SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS

I have been on a range of business and professional courses, including the Java Programming Workshop, SFA Securities Rep Exam, SSADM and project management. Also varied technical courses - covering Oracle, RPG and Application Master

BA (Hons) Mathematics and Computation (class 2i) Oxford University, 1985 - 1988

4 GCE 'A' levels, 2 grade A's (both in Maths) and 2 grade B's (Physics and Economics) 10 GCE 'O' levels, including English, French and Geography

Experience in the following areas:

Software	Java 1.3 (including Sun Certified Java Programmer and Developer - JDK1.1). Including RMI, JDBC, Servlets, Swing, applets, networking. Tools used include J++, Visual Cafe and JBuilder	Over 8.5 years
	.Net, C# 2.0 backend development, including multi -threaded code along with Spring.Net and log4net.	Over 1 year
	UML modelling, including use cases and class diagrams. These were done in Rational Rose	Over 1 year
	XML based message passing	Over 1 year
	C++, CORBA	Over 1 year
	Exposure to various other languages, including Oracle Web Server, XML, HTML and Javascript	Over 1 year
	Oracle 6, 7 and 8, SQL, PL/SQL, SQL*Plus, Forms 3 & 4.5	Over 5 years
	Developer and Designer 2000	Over 1 year
	Pro*C	Over 2 years
	MS Access, ODBC, Excel & Word, including macros	Over 4 years
	Software configuration tools - SCCS, RCS and Continuus	Over 2 years
Operating Systems	HP-UX 10, Unix	Over 2 years
	VAX/VMS	Over 2 years
	Windows 3.11, 95 and NT	Over 5 years
	SUN, Solaris 2.6 and 2.7	Over 2 years
	Linux	Over 1 year
Machines	HP, VAX, PCs

EXPERIENCE

This covers working for the following companies;

• Price Waterhouse (5 years)
• CS First Boston (2 and half years)
• Union Bank of Switzerland (1 and half years)
• BT Alex Brown (formerly Nat West Markets) (2 years)
• Deutsche Bank (6 months)
• Tokyo-Mitsubishi International (12 months)
• Rabobank International (7 years +)

RABOBANK INTERNATIONAL (January 2001 - to date)

Senior Java Developer

I have worked on several ecommerce related projects, including:

• Designed, developed and support Equity Derivative price contribution server – replacing the traders previous Excel based solution. This had a web 2.0 front end, based on Java/JSP with a Java core engine which used a C#/COM layer to hook into the existing pricing libraries.
• Developed and supported the banks price contribution system, from Excel and calculation engines to external vendors via JMS
• Designed, developed and support an FX Deal Entry system – providing real time prices and the ability to book deals through to the back office systems, using Java and RMI.
• Designed, developed and support a Java/RMI based tool to provide the banks prices into Excel.
• Designed and developed a contact and pipeline management system, with a web front end and an EJB based back end. This was a 100% Java project.
• Designed and developed an internet portal that provided the banks clients with a personalised experience of the banks online offerings. This was developed using Java servlets and JSP.
• Designed and developed an internet portal that provided clients with access to fund reports. This was developed using a Jetspeed-based front end with a SOAP/EJB backend, using JDO as the persistence layer.

My tasks included:

• Gather requirements from users, produce requirements documentation
• Design and build system, prototyping new features to gather detailed requirements
• Liaise with the production IT groups to implement the projects

TOKYO-MITSUBISHI INTERNATIONAL (January 2000 - December 2000)

Senior Java Developer

The purpose of the Syn project is to:

· Develop a full settlements system in Java using a Java based framework from Coexis
· The system covered static data, such as counterparty and instrument data and full trade processing from receipt from front office systems, production of confirms, settlement instructions and final settlement processing

My tasks included:

· Use of the tool from Coexis to define the system processing of trades
· Develop tests to exercise the system built
· Design and Development of front end screens for trade processing using JBuilder3.5, Java 1.2 with Swing.
· Design and Develop Java based extensions to the Coexis to cover all the TMI requirements

DEUTSCHE BANK (formerly BT ALEX BROWN) (June 1999 - December 1999)

Senior Developer

• 1 month, working as part of team on the architecture re-design of the back office processing, including confrimations, settlements, accounting and position management.
  • high level logical requirements
  • technical options
• 6 months, working as a developer on the first component of the new architecture. This was developed largely using Java, Corba and publish/subscribe middleware tool.
  • developed several server components in Java 1.2, including the trade, position and static data managers.
  • developed a few screens using Java 1.2 and Swing
  • enhanced JUnit (from Kent Beck et al) for the DB environment
  • enhanced Javadoc to provide standards checking and to display DB specific tags.

BT ALEX BROWN (formerly NAT WEST MARKETS) (June 1997 - June 1999)

Senior Developer

• 3 months, working as part of team on an Equity Settlements system, re-writing the processing for accepting trades into the system. This involved analysing the existing routines, producing specifications for this code and writing the new version of the software in Pro*C.
• 3 months, developing enhancements to this system to support the London Stock Exchange's change to an Order Driven Market - under SETS.
• 2 months, developed several web-based prototypes, including the use of the Java Web Server and Java Applets proving the practicality of this technology.
• 2 months, developed an application using the Oracle Web Server and the PL/SQL cartridge, as a way of accessing and updating the system. The system used Oracle security to restrict access and simple locking techniques to ensure there were no concurrent update issues.
• 3 months, enhancing key system components to conform to the Bankers Trust contract requirements, such as enhanced automation to reduce the possibility for user error.  This largely involved Pro*C development.
• Most recently, for the last year, I have been involved in developing an automated trade confirmation system under the banks' New Architecture. This is based around a multi-tier component-based architecture using Corba, Java and C++. My involvement is as a senior team member, providing business analysis skills, development expertise and mentoring to other team members.
• I developed several C++/CORBA based servers. This used the Orbix ORB and Naming Service. The servers were multi-threaded and used a separate (in-house) persistence service.
• The Java part covers the user interface part of the project, using Browser/AWT based front end. The Java client communicates with the backend servers using COM. The backend servers are written in C++. The team comprises 6 developers who have no previous Java experience. My role involves mentoring these developers in Java best practices, this includes writing supporting Java utilities, producing example UI prototypes, day to day help and advice for the developers learning Java and providing technical advice to the project management on how to use/adopt Java within the project.

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UNION BANK OF SWITZERLAND (Jan 1996 - June 1997)

Senior Application Developer

• This included several projects, such as;
  • Leading a team developing changes for Sequence 6 and the new CGO system - UCGO.
  • Developing a front and back office Swaps Reconciliation system - this involved Access and OLE
  • Conversion of an Oracle Forms 3 system to Forms4.5 and developing several system enhancements
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CS FIRST BOSTON (Jun 1993 - Dec 1995)

Systems Developer

• This included several projects, such as;
  • Design and Development of interfaces to integrate the local systems into a Global Reference Data System. This involved interfacing the global IBM/DB2 system with the local VAX/Oracle
  • Development of a Sales Credit capture and reporting system. This involved complex SQL*Plus and Pro*Cobol reports in a VAX/Oracle environment.
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PRICE WATERHOUSE MANAGEMENT CONSULTANTS (Sep 1988 - Jun 1993)

IT Consultant

• Several roles including;
  • designer on a large data conversion project
  • SSADM Relational Data Analysis
  • Design and Development in a Oracle/Unix environment
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